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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (German: 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Henny Porten, Walter Rilla and Friedrich Kayßler. It is based on Stefan Zwieg's 1927 novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman. The film was produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero Film in conjunction with Porten's own production company. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Franz Schroedter.
Plot
Helga Vanroh never really got over the death of her husband and has withdrawn from life entirely. Her self-chosen loneliness comes to an abrupt end one day when she meets a young man in the casino who, like her, seems to be a lost soul. This man, Sascha, has misfortune written all over his face. He loses bet after bet when gambling.
Helga is fascinated by him, finally follows Sascha to his hotel and is able to stop the desperate young man from committing suicide at the last moment. The two lonely people find each other, and Helga soon realizes that he has become more for her - more than a fleeting acquaintance, more than she originally wanted to allow. She spends the following day with him and eventually provides him with the financial means to break his apparent gambling addiction and travel on.
The young man then promises Helga that he will return to his homeland in view of the unexpected windfall. But Sascha is weak, and so Helga, to her great disappointment, has to realize that he is back at the gaming table the following evening, because his passion is stronger than any good intentions.
Cast
Henny Porten as Helga Vanroh
Walter Rilla as Sascha Lonay
Friedrich Kayßler as Professor Merk
Margo Lion as Frau Köhler
Hermine Sterler as Erika
Maria Koppenhöfer as Spielbankbesucherin
Walter Steinbeck as Hotelgast
Hadrian Maria Netto as Sekretär
References
Bibliography
Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
External links
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- First National Pictures
- Daftar film yang tidak lengkap
- Kino Video
- Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik
- Henny Porten
- Friedrich Kayßler
- Seymour Nebenzal
- Paramount Pictures
- Stanley Blystone
- Olaf Hytten
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1931 film)
- Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
- Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (disambiguation)
- The Champ (1931 film)
- List of plays adapted into feature films
- 2027 in public domain
- Dracula (1931 English-language film)
- Martin Scorsese
- Mary Murphy (actress)
- The Danish Girl (film)
